At 09:45 AM 11/30/03 -0700, you wrote:
>would love to find the complete unit this went in to add to the museum here,
>but I guess if even parts of it turn up would like to obtain those also..
>which surplus stores have them?
I don't think I've ever seen a complete unit. I may have seen a chassis
but not recognized it without the plug in panels. Usually I just find the
panels by themselves or maybe with jumpers. There's a scrap/surplus test
equipment company by the name of Avitar in Sanford that HAS had them in the
past. There's also a couple of places in Melbourne. I know there's none in
Melbourne now but I haven't been to Avitar in a while so I don't know about
them. The last BIG stash of them that I saw was at the Charlie Bell auction
a couple of years ago. Here's a bit more about that auction.
" They came from an auction down near Kennedy Space Center. The auction
was a HUGE collection of stuff from an engineer named Charlie Bell that
worked at KSC. Charlie worked at KSC almost from the day that KSC opened.
In fact, when KSC was first built, NASA hired a steel company to built many
of the gantries, block houses etc. The company built a large (20,000 ft2?)
fabrication building JUST outside the south gate of KSC to prefab many of
the parts and structures. After they were done Charlie bought the building
and used it to house a lot of his relics. This guy collected EVERYTHING.
For example, he had John Glenn's original space suit. In the yard were two
complete Altas rockets! He went to all of the surplus and scrap auctions
from the beginning and bought everything he could. Charlie died a couple of
years ago and his family started selling off stuff. They had two day
auctions every weekend for several months! And that was just one of the
THREE sites where Charlie had stuff stored! A lot of the stuff was just
trash or junk but there was lots of interesting stuff too. A friend of mine
bought a big box of stuff pretty much sight unseen, when he got it home
they found a hatch from one of the Apollo command modules in it! (He's
already turned down $50,000 for it.) These manuals where in one of the big
box of stuff that he bought. The auctions brought museum people and
collectors from all over the world. You just had to see the amount and
variety of stuff to believe it. Search the net for "Charlie Bell" and
you'll probably find more information about it."
Joe
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>Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
>
>Please check our web site at
> http://www.smecc.org
>to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we
>buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us.
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>address:
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> coury house / smecc
>5802 w palmaire ave
>glendale az 85301
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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>Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 6:45 AM
>Subject: Re: Interesting Find
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>> So that's what those were! I've seen PILES of these things at some of
>> the local scrap/surplus places. I was told they were from an analog
>> computer but never could find anything more than that.
>>
>> Joe
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>> At 12:24 AM 11/30/03 -0800, you wrote:
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>> >Today at TRW turned out to be rather interesting. A friend of mine was
>> >selling some stuff that included a funny module that didn't sell and I
>> >ended up with it. Turns out that it is an Amplifier Module (red/green
>> >front) for the Electronic Associates TR-10 Desktop Analog computer. Doug
>> >Coward has a picture of the computer on his site at
>> >http://dcoward.best.vwh.net/analog/eai.htm.
>> >
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